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Inlinewiththestandardpracticeintimeserieseconometrics,thetimeseriespropertyofdatawastestedattheoutsetusingtheaugmentedDickey–Fuller(ADF)test.Accordingtothetestresults,thevariablesunderconsiderationdonothavethesameorderofintegrationineachcountry.Forexample,inthePRC,therealexchangerateisstationary(I(0))whileothervariablesarenon-stationary(I(1));inThailand,totalexports,exportsinSITC7,realexchangerateandgeneratedproductioncapacityarestationarywhileothersarenon-stationary.
Underthedifferentorderofintegration,thefashionablecointegrationeconometricprocedures,suchasthetwo-stepresidual-basedprocedureadoptedbyEngleandGranger(1987),andthesystem-basedreducedrankregressionapproachofJohansen(1988,1991)formodellingnon-stationarydataareinap-propriate.TheeconometricanalysisinthisstudyisbasedontheGSMprocedure(Hendryetal.,1984;WickensandBreusch,1988;Hendry,1995;Pesaranetal.,2001).TheGSMprocedureisapplicablewhenasetofvariablesincludesaseriesthatisnon-stationaryoramixtureofnon-stationaryandstationary.Inthecaseofa nitesampleandnon-stationarydataseries,thisproceduretendstoprovideamorepreciseestimatethantheJohansenprocedure.Inparticular,theJohansenproceduretendstodeterioratesigni cantlyinsmallsamples,generatingestimateswith‘fattails’(frequentoutliers)andsometimessubstantialmeanbias(Hargreaves,1994).TheGSMcanbewrittenintermsofshort-runandlong-run(cointegration)relationshipsasinequation
(2):
ð2Þ
whereaisaconstant,Ytistheendogenousvariable,
Xj,tisthejthexplanatoryvariableandAiandBijaretheparameters.
andthelong-runthe1
isgivenbyC0C1.
Equation(2)istheparticularformulationgenerallyusedasthe‘maintainedhypothesis’ofthespeci cationsearch.Theestimationprocedureinvolves rstestimatingtheunrestrictedequation(2),andthenprogressivelysimplifyingitbyrestrictingstatisticallyinsigni cantcoef cientstozeroandreformulatingthelagpatternswhereappropriateintermsoflevelsanddifferencestoachieveorthogonality.Aspartofthespeci cationsearch,itisnecessarytocheckrigorouslyateverystageeventhemoregeneralofmodelsforpossiblemisspeci cation.Suchcheckswillinvolvebothavisualexaminationoftheresidualfromthe ttedversionofthemodelandtheuseoftestsforserialcorrelation,heteroscedasticityandnormalityintheresidual,andtheappropriatenessoftheparticularfunctionalformused.Inparticular,anysuggestionofautocorrelationintheresidualshouldleadtoarethinkabouttheformofthegeneralmodel.Aboveall,theoreticalconsistencymustbeborneinmindthroughoutthetesting-downprocedure.
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